Ben Boyd National Park species

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4 species

Amanita xanthocephala (Vermilion grisette)

Drechmeria gunnii (Dark Vegetable Caterpillar)

Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost Fungus)

Polypore sp.

Species Richness Score (SRS)

3,363

• Area (hectares) 10759.93 ha
• Survey Effort Score (SES) 0.95 sightings per ha

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Conservation level

Invasiveness

Fungi

• Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like]
• Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores]
  • Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less)
  • Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral
• Caps on stems; teeth below caps
• Caps on stems; none of the above
  • Caps conical/spherical & deeply pitted [morels]
  • Caps saddle-like to markedly convoluted [false morels]
  • Caps funnel-like
  • Caps otherwise
• Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]
  • Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces
  • Gills connected by cross veins
  • Other caps, gills below, no stem
• Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood
  • Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores]
  • Teeth on underside
  • Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened <Stereum etc>
• Puffballs & the like
  • Simple spore sac, with an apical hole [puffballs]
  • Spore sac on a star-like base [earthstars]
  • Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top
  • Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores
  • Other puffballs, etc (& the unknowns)
• Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime
  • Stinkhorns, radiating arms atop a stem
  • Stinkhorns, cage-like
  • Stinkhorns, some other shape- and miscellaneous
• Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex)
  • Clubs/stalks on soil
  • Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter
  • Clubs/stalks on invertebrates
• Coralloid fungi, markedly branched
• Disk-like to cup-like
  • Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus]
  • Cups or disks - with no 'eggs'
• Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes]
• Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc
  • Fungal galls
  • Other rusts, leaf spots, sooty moulds
• Other fungi on wood
  • Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface
  • Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust <perithecial>
  • Other black fungi <hysterothecial>
  • Other non-black fungi
• Truffles
• Other fungi
  • Moulds
  • Not moulds
• Uncategorised Fungi

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